揭短 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiēduǎn

expose shortcomings

jiē raise

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 曷 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

曷 Sound component

hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjet	m-[k]<r>at	lift, raise
	gjot	m-[k]at	lift
	khjejH	[k]ʰ<r>at-s	lift up one’s clothes
	khjet	[k]ʰ<r>at	lift
	kjot	[k]at	lift
Zhengzhang		kʰrads
		ked
		kʰrad
		ɡrad
		kad
		ɡad

說文解字

高舉也。从手曷聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

duǎn short

Phonosemantic compound. 矢 represents the meaning and 豆 represents the sound.

Components

矢 Meaning component

shǐ arrow

豆 Sound component

dòu bean

Change in sound

短 and 豆 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
短 *tˤorʔ
豆 *[N.t]ˤo-s

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	twanX	tˤorʔ	short

說文解字

《說文》：“短，有所長短，以矢為正。从矢，豆聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

揭 jiē raise

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說文解字

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短 duǎn short

Components

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jiē raise

duǎn short